The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer

Robert J. Dostal is Rufus M. Jones Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. He is author of Gadamer: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic (forthcoming) and editor of Phenomenology on Kant, German Idealism, Hermeneutics, and Logic (with O.K. Wiegand, L. Embree, J. Kockelmans and J. Mohanty, 2000).

Introduction Robert J. Dostal; 1. Gadamer: the man and his work Robert J. Dostal; 2. Gadamer's basic understanding of understanding Jean Grondin; 3. Getting it right: relativism, realism, and truth Brice Wachterhauser; 4. Philosophical hermeneutics, language and the communicative event James Risser; 5. Phronesis and solidarity: democratic politics Darren Walhof; 6. Gadamer's Herderian critics Georgia Warnke; 7. Gadamer on the human sciences Charles Taylor; 8. Art experience and its transformative potential in Gadamer's Hermeneutics Beata Sirowy; 9. Lyric as paradigm: Hegel and the speculative instance of poetry in Gadamer's Hermeneutics J. M. Baker, JR.; 10. Gadamer, the Hermeneutic revolution, and theology Fred Lawrence; 11. Hermeneutics in practice: Gadamer on ancient philosophy Catherine H. Zuckert; 12. Gadamer's Hegel Robert B. Pippin; 13. Gadamer's relation to Heidegger and phenomenology Robert J. Dostal; 14. The constellation of Hermeneutics, critical theory, and deconstruction Richard Bernstein; 15. Hermeneutics in a broader horizon: Gadamer, Rorty, Davidson Niall Keane; 16. Bibliography; 17. Index.